Friday 7 December 2018

How to access past exam papers for Dec and Jan exam prep


 Need to access the science past papers for the winter exams? Here's how to find them online:

  1. Start at the DIT Library website. In the E-Resources section click on Exam Papers.
  2. Select the Library Catalogue link.
  3. Choose the College of Sciences and Health from the list.
  4. Click on the Year you require e.g. 2017/2018 and then the Winter exams link
  5. Select your module code e.g. BIOL1801 and then save/open the pdf files.
If you need to access past papers from outside the DIT network you will need the Student Intranet passwords. Contact us at 01-4024894 or at kst.library@dit.ie if required.

Tip: download the past papers you need before you leave college for the student break.

Please note DIT Library scans and indexes every exam paper received from the DIT Kevin St Examinations office. If your exam paper is not listed lease contact your module coordinator.

To print or copy past exam papers see the Datapac print service



Tuesday 4 December 2018

For Web of Science users: online tutorials for December. #openaccess #metrics. Check out their WoS LibGuides and YouTube help pages too

Topics for December

 

Use Web of Science to identify, view and analyse Open Access (in English)

Tuesday 18th December at 10.00am

Open Access content is now easily identifiable in the Web of Science, but did you know you can decompose it in 5 different versions? Do you also know how to easily access the pdf versions and also analyse their Impact? In this short webex, our expert will go through this for you.
Registration link


Overview and explanation of analytical tools and citation metrics around the Web of Science Core Collection data.

Wednesday 19th December at 10.00am

In this short webinar, our expert will demonstrate the different Clarivate tools and solutions available for generation of metrics, and how to get a better understanding of the questions they help answer. Such tools can be used within the Web of Science platform, as well as in Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators, and InCites Benchmarking and Analysis.
Registration link


Links to other resources from Clarivate





We are hiring! Library Assistant Posts Available in DIT (part-time and full-time).


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DIT Library Services currently has three full-time and 12 part-time temporary Library Assistant (Grade 3) vacancies. We are also setting up a panel from which further temporary full-time and part-time positions will be filled over the coming year.

DIT Library Services operates a Central Services Unit and six site based libraries.  The Library Assistants provide essential support to staff and students for their learning, teaching and research activities.  Successful candidates will be required to work full-time 37 hours per week or part-time 18.5 hours per week. This will require working late nights (until 9.30pm) and Saturdays (9.00am-5.00pm) during term-time.

Candidates should have excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrated initiative and proven organisational ability.  Experience of working in libraries is desirable.

The key duties of the post include:

•       Work as part of a team providing a day-to-day service to students and staff
•       Provide library reception desk services to students, staff and external visitors
•       Issue and discharge books at the library desk and assist users with self-service machines
•       Assist with user queries in person, by phone and via email
•       Re-shelve returned items & ensure library material is available on shelves in an orderly fashion. 
•       Assist users with photocopying and printing facilities
•       Prepare orders for new books, check-in periodicals, request material from other libraries, prepare new books for shelving and lending.


Interested parties should send a current CV to tempLAGrade3@dit.ie by 5pm Thursday 6th December.



Christmas 2018: DIT Library Kevin St opening hours



Thursday 29 November 2018

SciFInder Workshop: Tuesday 11th December 2018, DIT Kevin St: Room KE3046


SCIFINDER WORKSHOP

Tuesday 11th December 2018

Room KE 3046  (3rd Floor, Kevin St. Main Building)

Two separate sessions will be facilitated by Dr J. Agbenyega:

  • 10.00am-12.00pm: postgraduate students/ staff
  • 2.00pm - 4.00pm: postgraduate students/ staff




SciFinder Scholar provides access to the Chemical Abstracts Service's (CAS) large collection of indexed literature back to 1907. This makes SciFinder Scholar an essential database for all research questions that have a chemical structure at their core. In addition to the references and abstracts found in Chemical Abstracts (1907-Present), SciFinder's comprehensive content includes information on substances, patents, experimental and predicted properties, and spectra.



From the trainer: Ths is a two hour interactive session exploring:
·  Reference searching, how to analyse and refine your search, categorise, then save or export
·  Substance searching, information available in a typical substance record
·  Supplier directory and how this is integrated into SciFinder
·  Example: take a substance and show how to search using chemical structures and explore in a little more detail the field of structure searching; reaction searching and how to use Sciplanner.